Power Corp's Newspaper Assets

The Globe and Mail, Konrad Yakabuski, 17 May 2006Yves Michaud calls Paul Desmarais his "friend of almost 50 years." In truth, the two feisty septuagenarians have been on opposite sides of Quebec's political divide since the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. Mr. Michaud is as sovereigntist as the pope is Catholic and once founded a newspaper to counter a perceived federalist slant in the Quebec